It’s been six long months since we last saw the “Battlestar Galactica” crew and their new Cylon allies go from the giddy high of finally finding Earth to the pitch-black depression of discovering the planet is a nuclear wasteland.
Tonight at 10 EST on the SciFi network, the second half of the fourth and final season commences with a gripping premiere episode that offers up a few more shockers..
Tonight we pick up right where we left off, with the expedition of humans and Cylons surveying the bleak landscape of what they had hoped would be their new home. The planet is not only fried, but the ruins offer myth-shattering clues about the original inhabitants that sucker-punch the survivors…
The series has played deliberately as a modern allegory. The new question is uncomfortably timely: What do you do when you’ve put all your eggs in one basket and the bottom of the basket drops out? Given the show’s admirable history of exploring humanity’s darker corners, it’s no surprise that some characters lament the cracked shells while others try to salvage an omelet.
I’d take the allegory further; but – that’s me.
#18 – I have to admit I’ve only watched a few episodes. If that’s an accurate description of their wordview, then fuck ‘em. America is the reason the human race exists.
The show’s plots make no sense. Could someone explain to me what Xena wanted the humans to do in the last episode? She shows up saying that they are to hand over the Final Five(which is now a Final Four), but she won’t tell them who the Five/Four are. Then she sits on her ship and kills hostages, and says she will keep killing them until they hand em over. Alright then, why doesn’t she say which people she should hand over?
And the fifth cylon is…. ALL OF TEM. Yep. All the “humans” of the colonies are the “fith cylon”. It’s been assumed that #5 was a single cylon.
#18 ArianeB. Oh yeah, I’m buying that.
The humans were made by the Cylons. The humans rebelled against the Cylons and nuked their planet. The surviving cylons ventured forth to find a new world to live on.
That planet they went to wasn’t earth. You never clearly saw the continents, you never saw the other planets in the solar system. You just assumed it was earth.
There is an earth somewhere, and its run by some very militarily powerful humans, who won’t be too happy with the Galactica showing up.
What a waste of media.
This series is neither here nor there. On the end it aims high and wants to be allegoric and falls flat on it’s face. The best episodes are the ones where it’s just a space opera, and the bad guys are there and the good guys are here and they shoot each other and that’s it. 40 minutes of simple thrilling fun. period.
But this. This is cheesy.
I don’t know. It is too good to not see it. But I’m unhappy since the second season.
It is so abstruse and arbitrary. I mean come on, Cylons in search of God? The last human survivors following a delusional school teacher who has visions?
They take spiritual way too serious in this series.
I liked the old series better. It was full of bad acting, great 70′s hairdos, sexism, reused footage in every show, John Colicos overacting, and of course the angel/devil thing which was about as complex as the 70′s mind could ever comprehend.
Oh and it had a chimpanzee in a dog robot outfit, come on thats just cool beyond belief.
# 28 Rick Cain said, in part:
“Oh and it had a chimpanzee in a dog robot outfit, come on thats just cool beyond belief.”
Muffitt!
You know, I was convinced the robot pet was called Boxey; turns out that was the kid’s name. As the old Chinese (Japanese?) saying goes, “the most faded ink is better than the sharpest memory.”
Athena (the half human-half Cylon child) just drew this sheet music:
http://galacticabbs.com/index.php?autocom=gallery&req=si&img=155737
It’s actually a map. Just line up stars with these spectral colors and follow to the end….